Delegations

Delegations to Mexico, Honduras, Colombia, and Cuba give American adults and teens first-hand knowledge of conditions and the issues that WFPSE and its allies seek to address. Delegations are a starting point. After delegates return to the United States, we expect that they continue advocacy work, meeting with their local representatives, holding educational meetings, starting a university chapter, etc. We report these activities back to our partners in country to ensure that these exchanges are reciprocal. The delegate experience varies by country, but a delegate may expect the following:

In-country

Meeting with indigenous leaders

Learning from organizers and activists

Delivering messages to the U.S. Embassy in that country

Extensive training about objectives, strategies, and tactics to help effect change in the U.S.

Upon returning to the U.S.

WFPSE staff and delegates visit with Representatives, Senators, and the Department of State to share their experiences and urge reform.

Upcoming Delegations:

Honduras: Criminalization and Incarceration – Exporting the American Way

February 26, 2019 – March 7, 2019

Explore the US role in the Honduras human rights crisis, with a special focus on criminalization and incarceration of human rights and environmental rights activists in Honduras. Delegates will learn directly from leaders of various human rights and grassroots organizations as they share stories and legal and political organizing strategies for fighting violence, persecution, and impunity.

Cost: $1,200 + airfare

Application & $250 Deposit Deadline: December 26, 2018

Participants in this delegation will:

Explore connections between policing, criminalization and the prison industrial complex in the US and Honduras.

Learn about illegal land grabs by corporations; the criminalization and repression of political protest and expression; governmental and police corruption; and the increasing militarization of Honduran society.

Gain knowledge about the impunity that pervades the Honduran justice and law enforcement systems with most acts of violence and murders, violations of human rights, corruption, and illegal corporate activities going unpunished.

Meet US embassy officials to share what delegates have learned and to urge changes in US policy in Honduras.

90 miles away from the US coast, Cubans have one of the best healthcare systems in the world. The World Health Organization praised Cuba’s preventative healthcare model and calls other countries to follow it. In 2016, Cuba’s infant mortality rate was 4.3% per 1,000 live births as compared to Tennessee’s rate of 7.4%. Join us to discover Cuba’s history of social reform, its relationship with the US, preventative healthcare model, educational system and culture.